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6 minutes ago, spongebob toonpants said:
Open processing centres in France seems feasible and not a fantasy solution, but whatever
It's a solution to what though? Stopping small boat crossings? Absolutely. But this whole debate is nothing to do about the safety of those crossings, it's about getting the numbers down. No government of any colour actually wants to take in asylum seekers.
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18 minutes ago, spongebob toonpants said:
No but this and the responses mean we've been suckered by the right wing blowhards into arguing on their territory that asylum seekers and illegal immigrants are the same thing and are a PROBLEM that must be SOLVED
Labour have been completely suckered into this. I though at the very least they would establish legal routes which would stop the small oats in a heartbeat but oh no let's just beat the gammon drum louder
Legal routes were never an option, it was a fantasy solution used as an answer to the question ‘well what would you do?’ while in opposition.It’s not controversial to say that our asylum system is being abused by some. I know Labour came in claiming they’d make the process much faster but I haven’t seen any evidence on how successful they’ve been at this.
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3 minutes ago, Gemmill said:
It's the determination of when a country is "safe" again that becomes the issue. Especially if you had bad actors like Farage in government.
Ideally it would be determined by someone like the judiciary. Even an independent body isn't immune from government influence if they're the ones making the appointments.
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I'm not sure that Botman is automatically a better starting option than Dan Burn at centre back. Botman has looked pretty average to me since coming back from his latest injury. I'd like to see both of them rotated.
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1 minute ago, Kid Dynamite said:
He was absolutely incredulous that the ref dared to send him off. He gets away with murder in the Saudi league by all accounts.The Ireland manager made some comments before the match that he hoped the referee wouldn't let Ronaldo run the game as he had in the first match. It definitely struck a nerve as the cry baby cunt went for the Ireland manager after being sent off.
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He's 40 years old.
Anyway, he's likely to get a three match ban for elbowing which will mean missing the first two games of the WC. That's the WC in the USA. A bit too convenient?
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Ribbed for her pleasure.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgmvjmvyg7o
Am I a terrible person to think that this isn’t an awful idea?
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c1wl197jw9qo
QuotePart of the plan includes a focus on female-friendly changing rooms and toilets as well as providing parent and guardian areas, including family toilets and breastfeeding areas.
It would would want to see 45% of toilets for males and 45% females, with 10% gender-neutral.
Improving the matchday experience has also been addressed, with the guidelines saying seat sizes and spacing should be adapted with women in mind.
The option for supporters to sit in an alcohol-free area of the stadium should also be on offer, it says
Give them an inch...
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Looks like the sort of thing Savile would have worn if we was from Newcastle.
wyki already has it on his Santa list.
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4 minutes ago, scoobos said:
Can't go with this personally. We would have beaten Villa and arguably would have done better at Bournemouth too, that would have had a massive effect on morale and pressure on the team.
He cost us 5 points at least at the start of the season.On 10/11/2025 at 08:22, ewerk said:We may be a few points better off if we’d have had Isak in August when we were playing well but not getting the results but he wouldn’t make much difference to our current predicament.
Maybe you should get back to editing speeches for Panorama.
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Well that'll take a good five minutes before someone finds a way around it.
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You'll not find anyone here arguing with that.
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Tax dodging cunt.
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15 minutes ago, AgentAxeman said:
I wouldn't ask anyone else to change their own opinion because even though I disagree with something or someone it's their opinion and it's correct for them.
You’ll just call them deluded and refuse actually challenge anything that has been said. You’re definitely showing all the cognitive attributes of a Reform supporter.-
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I too find that refusing to
44 minutes ago, AgentAxeman said:
If you've paid any attention to this thread at all you'll see that pretty much every poster contributing will openly admit that they don't have all the answers. If you believe that you do then chances are you're most likely wrong.
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10 hours ago, Rayvin said:
Also reading that they're considering introducing a lower limit on tax free pension contributions...? Meaning essentially that people who are still working/the young will be paying more than anyone previously has been, in order to pay the pensions of the people who have already retired now. And when these same young people retire, they will be tens of thousands worse off than they should have been.
I don't really know what to do with my rage around Labour to be honest. How can they claim to be a party for working people while thieving people's pension contributions to cover for the fact that Brexit has destroyed the country?
For years now the government has been telling people to increase their pensions yet now they're actively making that less advantageous. This is most certainly a tax on working people. Meanwhile cunts like me can choose to put £60k a year from my business into a pension completely tax free while also saving £15k on my corporation tax bill. How does that make sense?
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FFS, finally we have someone with all the answers to the country's ills. Surprisingly though he's refusing to tell it like it is.
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58 minutes ago, Renton said:
Not just personal careers though is it? No party can get re-elected with long term projects, and that's the crux of the matter, or one of the cruxes. Made worse by the ultra partisan nature of British politics currently.
Starmer is Mr Anti-charisma but he has inherited an absolute shit show that will take more than a decade to turn around with conventional economics. He won't get the chance as an individual and the party won't get the chance. The media, particularly social media, control the narrative and they are against Starmer. Anything good they do, like for instance abolishing the child benefit cap, is ignored or claimed as frivolous. Has anyone here even mentioned it? The realities of their economic constraints are simply ignored. You can ignore them if you want, but they are still there
I mean it's not been great but holy shit, 3 years ago we had Boris fucking Johnson at the helm. I think the criticism on here of the government has been disproportionate tbh things aren't going to change in 16 months. But hey ho, let's roll the dice and get Farage in, let's see where that gets us.
Things won’t change straight away but have we seen a semblance of a long term plan? Labour had a good idea of how shit things were going to be but they don’t seem to have any sort of a plan for it. Even something like reform of the Lords would be progress that wouldn’t cost anything but there has been zero movement on that.-
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I thought series one was decent. Sat through series two because there was fuck all else on on a Sunday night. For some reason series three automatically started recording on my box so I put it on last night and made it through about 60 seconds of the tortured protagonist shite before switching it off.
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Actually you can’t stand to be Labour leader unless you’re an MP so it’s all moot.
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17 minutes ago, Gemmill said:
Don't think so, cos making him leader would make him PM.
Aye, it was more a question of whether he could be PM but not sit in the HoC. Turns out he can (see Douglas-Home) but would need to get a seat sharpish. -
The PLP is entirely devoid of anyone with a semblance of personality. Burnham is the only one who I think could turn the public’s opinion, only helped by the fact that he’s outside Westminster. I’m not sure if it’s possible to make him leader prior to getting a WM seat?
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21 hours ago, Rayvin said:
Surely the BBC could only be subject to US law if they agree to be, otherwise they'd be sued daily by regimes all over the world. I was just reading that if it does get heard there, the BBC likely win anyway mind. Presumably Trump wants them to pay him £10m or so in reality so he can call it a win and point to the fake news against him.
I've avoided reading much about this because frankly I don't give a shit but the fact that he has filed this in Florida seems to be a clear indication that this is a shake down. By doing so he has made it harder for himself to win given that in the US the press has more protection plus he has to prove that people in the state of Florida watched the program despite the fact it was never broadcast there. He has no intention of going to court and it'll be much cheaper for him to file a sham suit in Florida than it would be to do it properly and file it in the UK. He's hoping for a cheap, quick win and get a payout from the BBC rather than having any intention of pursuing 'justice'. I assume he'll also have to prove that he has been damaged by the broadcast and the fact that he increased both his vote and vote share in Florida shows that this is demonstrably untrue.
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Other Games Hatewatch 25/26
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Unfortunately that can't happen. Portugal's worst outcome is the play-offs.